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Originally Posted by rm1369
Yeah the danger is when fans start becoming apathetic. I’m just now starting to follow the Pacers again after years of not caring. I was a die hard fan, but once I felt the team was content being mediocre as long as they were ok enough to have seats filled, I quit. I can deal with losing and rebuilding. Honestly sometimes those are the most exciting times - if you think something is being built. But if the team doesn’t seem to care, why should I? I’m in that danger zone with the Colts. I would have not renewed my season tickets if I had the option now. I still get frustrated, but it’s becoming more a resignation now than anything else.
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Good shit, and I am fighting the same battle. Maybe that's the best way to put it into context- Ballard makes me WANT to be apathetic but my conflict and as such my rage comes by way of my love for the team causing me to lash out instead.
In terms of my off board life and my board life, I do view the Colts and other sports of course, as a source of entertainment and release; so I am not irrational. Loses happen, they suck, it hurts, but I still have to go about life and do the things I have to do each and every day both good and bad. Life's so full of crazy shit to be absorbed, addressed, resolved, much of it you have to just deal with. So then comes the few hours of disengagement from all the world's requirements by taking in what should be enjoyable and instead it's 3 hours of pure shit, well then I start losing my shit!
Look Ballard in particular, to me, is soooooo fucking far away from my perceived standards for this organization it's unreal. I'm old, I've been through the atrocious and the glorious Colts experience. At this point, this feels like the absolute worst. Seems a bit ludicrous to say about a team that is at least competing for the playoffs, but that's how it feels. It feels like the TEAM is apathetic- willing to accept insufficient effort and outcomes with a meh and then off to island paradise attitude---- and that fucking sucks!
I have, right or wrong, laid my blame for that apathy squarely on the shoulders of Ballard who I legitimately believe is a con-man. I don't think he is good at this shit at all and I think he is willing to stab his own mother in the back for self preservation, and I fucking HATE people that are like that.
I am tired of watching the same movie over and over again. As RM points out, shit I can live with 2-14 but you KNOW the team is making changes for the better. Fucking give me that, give me some really bad football players that go out and just die on the field trying. In the Giants game thread I might have reached my most acerbic state when Locke ran for the TD and Nick Cross literally stood there and watched him score without even making a step toward him. To me, that is this version of the Colts in a single play and that shit is why I RAGE at this version of the team. That is not entertainment to me and I can invest my time and $$$ elsewhere in the entertainment world but I sure as hell don't want to! Chris Ballard is pushing me more and more in that direction.
TRIPLE FUCK CHRIS BALLARD!